Winter

Some pictures of our winter...

Uncle Eric sent the kids Patriots hats to celebrate their Super Bowl win

Aaron celebrated 100 days of school with some fun specs

And made us happy hour drinks with them on

Aaron slept like he does so well

The kids and I went to see Wicked. Jeff was out of town in SF with his brothers and friends having a great time. 

Sleepy sick

After Emily got sick during the Arizona trip, the boys caught some version of it. They were mostly just sleepy which could have been the time zone shift, jet lag, late nights, early mornings or maybe some mild version of what Emily had. Needless to say, just a few pictures of the lively crew at home. 

No nap?

So we tried a few times for Aaron to skip nap time or at the very least have quiet time in lieu of naptime to facilitate better night time sleep and preschool transition. Not sure it's working so well...

The first day, he said he wanted to try no nap, but ran to his room at one point and then emerged about 3 hours later after a rocking good nap. The next day he did great missing nap. We were at the pool so he was super active during that time and very much awake.

The next day: blinds open, books to read, coloring / activity book to play with and totally passed out. 

The next day: Fell asleep in the car and through a quick shopping trip. 

The next day:

The kid sure knows what he needs! 

Aaron falling asleep

After our outing in DC during Aaron's naptime, he was exhausted. Nevermind that it was 5:30pm and we had just began our 4 hour drive ahead of us, he passed out. And I caught it on video. Isn't he cute? 

Aaron sleeping

Still not adjusted to the time zone change and long travel day, Aaron found his way into our bed at some point during the night. I was watching him sleep so why not record it. So yes, this is a video of Aaron sleeping. 

When the Bear doesn't nap

Aaron fell asleep on our bike ride home for about 10 minutes and felt that was good enough for a nap. Not quite... here we are sitting in the parking lot of Target while he catches some much needed zzz's. Looks like he serenaded himself to sleep. 

Sleepy Bear

Aaron now passes out in the car with somewhat impressive frequency. If it's 10, 11am or noon, he can find himself dozing off. I'm not sure if it's the turned around seat or if he is just needing to sleep earlier, but it's cute how he passes out in his seat, sometimes in funny positions. He got turned around in his seat because we have watched his little girl friend, Alice several times so we have a seat for her in the car. Aaron decided to climb into it one day when she wasn't with us and loves sitting in her seat. He made it turned around 10 months longer than the requirement and only 2 months short of the suggestion. We'll take it. And I think so will he! 

Kyle sleeping

Kyle, Emily & Aaron have been sharing a room for the past week. Aaron is in his crib, and Kyle and Emily sleep sideways on a queen bed so they have enough space to not roll into one another. Well there is the smallest of spaces between the bed and Aaron's crib and Kyle managed to roll into it. And continued to sleep soundly. I noticed him when I went to check on them before going to bed myself and having a moment of panic when I couldn't find him. He sure does sleep like a rock. 

Sleepers

Aaron's crib in the morning

Now that Aaron is in the same room as Kyle, this is oftentimes what Aaron's crib looks like in the morning if we don't get to him first. Kyle and Emily do their best to entertain them to buy us just a few more minutes of sleep. They are so good to us!